University of Queensland researchers have discovered a molecular pathway they hope will help fight COVID, cancer and other diseases.
They’ve visualised the protein M-Y-D-eighty-eight, responsible for passing messages from immune cell receptors to the body, triggering the body’s immune response.
Sometimes the transmission can malfunction, leading to inflammation worsening the body’s ability to fight disease.
Professor Bostjan Kobe and his colleagues hope their study could help develop a way to block these receptors.